Somalia Islamists need to hear from NY mayor

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Background on Somalia - http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/...territories/somalia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo including these statements:
Somalia continues to be a caldron of bloodshed, piracy and Islamist radicalism. That volatile mix has spilled over its borders in recent years, but perhaps most intensely in July 2010, when bombings in Kampala, Uganda killed more than 70 civilians and shocked the entire country.
Somali Islamist insurgents — egged on, or possibly aided, by Al Qaedaclaimed responsibility for the attack. There are currently 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers in Mogadishu, but they are struggling to beat back the Islamist fighters, who are rallying around a group called the Shabab.

From the NYT of today ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/world/africa/10somalia.html?ref=todayspaper ):
Although Puntland is home to pirates and human-trafficking groups, it has also been largely insulated from the warfare that has ravaged Somalia in recent years, making it a relative haven for aid groups. But a recently announced alliance between an insurgent commander and Shabab militants has raised fears that militants could destabilize the region.
The warlord, Sheik Mohamed Said Atom, said last month that he would fight the Puntland government until it agreed to impose strict Islamic law.
Mr. Atom also declared that “we are members of the Shabab,” conservative Islamists who control much of southern Somalia and claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Uganda in July.
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On Monday, the Shabab announced they were banning three Christian aid groups from their territory, saying the groups had been spreading their “corrupted ideologies in order to taint the pure creed of the Muslims in Somalia,” according to news reports from the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/w...ome&adxnnlx=1282651226-lwMGefwlqC3EZ/+GWo8btA
Massacre in Somali hotel: Insurgents dressed as police officers raided a hotel in the country's capital of Mogadishu on Tuesday morning, killing at least 33 people, including six lawmakers of the country's transitional government. The assault appears to be part of a larger offensive, led by the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group, which is challenging the government's control over its few remaining strongholds.
 
The Somali insurgent-jihadi group Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen (Movement of Warrior-Youth), its ranks swelled by a stream of volunteers from abroad, mainly from Somali immigrant communities in Europe and North America, is currently enjoying widening control over large swaths of the southern regions of the troubled East African nation.
http://www.juancole.com/2010/08/anz...bn+(Informed+Comment)&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail
in which contributing correpondent Christopher Anzalone, a doctoral student at McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies writes:
Harakat al-Shabab embodies the vision of its founder, the late Adan Hashi Ayro, who saw the group as the forerunner of a radical Islamic state first in Somalia and eventually East Africa. Mogadishu: Crusaders’ Graveyard continues a theme repeated by the group’s senior leaders, dedication to the eventual establishment of a global “Islamic” state governed by their extreme jihadi-takfiri interpretation of Shari‘ah.
 
good for them. maybe they can make something of that piece of land. too bad people like you think it's your duty to interfere in their business. Think you know better than they do....
 
gunt86 said:
good for them. maybe they can make something of that piece of land. too bad people like you think it's your duty to interfere in their business. Think you know better than they do....
Exactly where do I say "people like me" think it is my duty to interfere?
 
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